A COMIC'S VIEW: Ducking, diving and running for cover over disclosure
Wow! What a week it was. I must say there were many ‘things’ that caught my eye in the headlines this week. Some happenings left me shaking my head in disgust, others made me laugh my butt off.
A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Once again, MPs fail to obey law on disclosures
MUCH like in previous years, we see widespread lawbreaking by lawmakers who have yet again failed to abide by the law that mandates that they file annual financial declarations.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Losing trust in the police force
ON Sunday, I suffered a harrowing experience at the hands of two officers of the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF). It opened my eyes to the abuses, disrespect and breaches of constitutional rights that so many Bahamians have been subjected to by rogue elements of the police.
NASSAU LIFE: An everyday story of Bahamian issues
Richard Coulson offers a succinct (and opinionated) summary of the recent spate of hot news topics.
A Comic’s View: Prince is dead, long live the Queen
My high school English teacher at St Andrew’s Gordon Mills (awesome teacher and even better person) had a sign on his desk “Garbage in, garbage out.”
A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Beleaguered government faces a summer of discontent
IT IS clear that sometimes in life, the truth is much stranger than fiction.
TOUGH CALL: Will our leaders ever get serious about a plan for the future?
I THINK most of us would agree that the country could do with a strategic plan that looks beyond our five-year electoral cycles and pushes the public sector to deliver.
VIEW FROM AFAR: A tax too far on hotels
WHEN a hotel bring travel agents, media personalities and journalists to the Bahamas and puts them up free of cost, the hotel is required to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) on a value of the rooms given to them.
Working together to strengthen the rule of law in The Bahamas
The IDB has granted a $20m loan to the Bahamas to help with the fight against crime. Robert Pantzer explains the technical co-operation that paved the way for the new approach.
POLITICOLE: Illiteracy and unemployability shame The Bahamas
If I hear one more person claiming to want to lead me and my people and can barely knock two letters together to make sense ...
A COMIC'S VIEW: Reconciliation in the air over Baha Mar
THEY say time heals all wounds. I guess when billions of dollars and thousands of jobs are on the line those wounds heal faster than others.
A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Carnival strikes a discordant note - again
THOUGH the governing Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) is not likely to scrap the Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival (BJC) any time soon, this is one programme that deserves a stiff dose of stop, review and cancel.
POLITICOLE: Why we shouldn’t be afraid to move on
IT usually takes me quite some time to make up my mind about something, especially if it’s something of great importance or meaning to me.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Loose talk, leaks and lotteries - just another week in the Bahamas
My, what a week it has been. Filled with some of my favourite forms of comedy - innuendo and irony.
